Filtering

Click on ‘More’ to see more values for a filter type. In the ‘More’ screen you can sort the values by name or frequency, and you can sort in the values.

The meaning of the filters is as follows:

Date: for works of art, the creation date (or date range); for artists: the years between birth and death; for primary and secondary sources: the publication date. Note that not for all records an exact date is known, so it is possible that results are found that are not strictly within the date range that you provided.

Location: for works of art and primary sources, the location (place) where the work/source physically resides; for artists: places that are mentioned in his record (birth place, place of death, places of activity); for secondary sources: place where it was published.

Author/artist name: for words of art, the name of the artist; for primary and secondary sources: the author. No results for artists.

Artist/author type: similarly as Author/artist name.

Content type: By selecting ‘works of art’, all works of art are found. By selecting ‘publications’, all secondary sources are found. In addition, all works of art have a subtype (painting, drawing, etc.); the same holds for primary sources all have a specific type (court records, notarial acts, etc.) and secondary sources (newspaper article, books/e-books etc.); no results for artists;

View results

After entering a query and/or selecting filter values, results are shown for the four different databases. In each set of results, you can click ‘More’ to browse through all retrieved results. You can click on a result to see the page with selected details about the results. Each detail page also contains the link (‘Permalink’) to the original location of the data in the RKD database, RemDoc or RUQuest.

Clear everything

Click on the refresh button to clear all fields and start a new search

A Digital Workbench for Rembrandt Research

RemBench is an integrated online work environment that enables research about the life and works of Rembrandt van Rijn. We brought together four existing databases and disclosed them through one search interface. Our target groups are historians, art historians and other humanities scholars and students.

RemDoc, a collection of original documents related to Rembrandt van Rijn from the period between 1475 to circa 1750

RUQuest, a library system that provides access to full text articles, as well as the complete collection of (e-)books and journals from the Radboud University Library Catalogue

RemBench is funded as part of the CLARIN-NL programme and was developed by Huygens ING in collaboration with Radboud University Nijmegen and RKD. It is a demo application, intended to serve as an example of the possibilities of digitized historical data. The data reside in their original databases; RemBench provides access to them.